From: "Bjørn Mork" <bjorn@mork.no>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: gnus-group-expire-articles loops on nnimap group with total-expire
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:20:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87iqcr3ppg.fsf@nemi.mork.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3y6ln2ecg.fsf@dod.no>
Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> writes:
> Platform: Intel Atom,
> "Linpus Linux" (FC8 derivative),
> GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.1) of 2007-10-24 on xenbuilder2.fedora.redhat.com
> No Gnus v0.11 (CVS update today)
>
> When I do `C-c C-x' on top of an nnimap group with the following group
> parameters:
>
> ((uidvalidity . "1221068358")
> (total-expire . t)
> (expiry-target . "nnimap+mailhost:inbox.arkiv"))
>
> the expiry seems to loop, attempting to expire the same articles again
> and again.
>
> Here's what's to be found in the *Messages* buffer
> ...
> nnimap: Setting marks in inbox.arkiv...done
> nnimap: Updating info for nnimap+mailhost:inbox.arkiv...done
> nnimap: Setting marks in inbox.arkiv...done
> nnimap: Updating info for nnimap+mailhost:inbox.arkiv...done
> Regenerating in nnimap+mailhost:inbox.arkiv
> ...
> (multiple times)
>
> Does anyone know what could be causing this loop? This seemed to be
> working the first time I tried it.
Are you sure that it's the same article? nnimap with an expiry-target is
extremely slow. It will copy one by one article instead of just letting
the imap server move the whole bunch.
I've been using this patch for a long time:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/64810
Bjørn
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2009-12-01 10:11 Steinar Bang
2009-12-01 11:20 ` Bjørn Mork [this message]
2009-12-01 13:24 ` Steinar Bang
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